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May 26, 2007 at 8:22 pm in reply to: Gannet and Wessex #1295900

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Hi all,

Was over at the North East Aircraft Museum last Friday and they have hinted that they are getting a Gannet and Wessex !

Coincidence ! Hmmm

Can anyone verify this ?

I didn’t say it.. I wasn’t even here. confirmed via BAPC, awaiting confirmation via the two parties…… Thats all I’m going to say.

May 26, 2007 at 8:11 pm in reply to: Wheel ID help! #1295935

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North East Aircraft Museum are going to recover a Dove (?) from Aeroventure next weekend… Don’t know the condition of the airframe, but I believe it is complete. I’ll have a look when I’m there.

May 26, 2007 at 8:08 pm in reply to: Red Bull DC6 #1295943

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I can only comment on what I have been told. He was based at Graz where they had built two large glass hangars in the shape of aerofoils – one for maintenance, the other containing a working museum. I was not there, so I don’t know……

May 26, 2007 at 2:55 pm in reply to: Red Bull DC6 #1296172

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A friend of mine (JP – you know who you are!!!) helped restore that aircraft at Gratz, and then ended up with me on the Lanc at Coventry. He has some amazing photos and videos of the DC6… Apparently after spending six months polishing the thing, its first engine run deposited all of its oil all over the cowlings and wing………. doh! The facility at Gratz is something else! It has to be seen to be believed….AWESOME

May 24, 2007 at 1:32 pm in reply to: Which Aircraft would you most like to fly in ? #1298211

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Hmm… done:
Pitts S2B
NA T6G
Waco UPF7
Sea King (airshow and on ops too….. awesome)
Chipmunk
Bulldog
the usual civvie types

want:
Tornado/ Eurofighter
Bucc
Any heavy metal Fast jet

and of course, The Grace Spitfire…

May 24, 2007 at 1:16 pm in reply to: Gannet and Wessex #1298234

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News just in

I Know a secret… na nah:p

All I’m going to say is, providing the transport costs can be met, BOTH airframes are secure! And will be displayed INSIDE and restored!

May 24, 2007 at 12:08 pm in reply to: XW750 HS 748 up for auction #1298269

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I work for a company based at robin hood airport, we are now the owners of xw750, she is still live and we hope to fly her soon, her main role here is for ground running and engineering training. Just thought I’d let you all know she is ok and being looked after.

Are you the EASA 147 company at Robin Hood – for training new aircraft fitters (licence modules and FD?) ? I am ex- Newcastle Aviation Academy, now contracting all over (PA474….., and the usual airbussy stuff). If the 748 is now in a technical school, she is in good hands. Newcastle’s 737-200 C-GWJO is in fine form, and getting better all the time. Good luck with the propjob…

Question – Is Newcastle Aviation Academy’s Boeing 737-200 (ex C-GWJO) the only preserved Boeing 737 in the country? They also had a HS125, but some lunatic chopped it up into sections (That will be me…. sorry)

May 24, 2007 at 11:41 am in reply to: Gannet and Wessex #1298292

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Maybe they read my posts on here….. I didn’t speak to them about it! Honest!

Its good that the aircraft will be saved. Maybe its time to dust off my tool box and get over to NEAM… (Its only 300 yards….)

May 24, 2007 at 11:26 am in reply to: Aircraft crashed in UK waters #1298411

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A german bomber – either a Ju88 or He111 (sorry, I was 5 when I saw it…) used to be just at the bottom of the cliffs at Whitley Bay, Northumberland. At low tide its tail was exposed. I only ever saw it once, and so not sure whether it was recovered…

Oh, there’s about a dozen Tornados off the north east coast too…..

There are alledgedly a few WW2 aircraft around the Piers at Sunderland… you would need to find a diver to see if anything is still there..

May 13, 2007 at 3:53 pm in reply to: What happened with the Valiant? #1308927

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Yeah, thats right (as far as I’m aware). There was a Valiant B.x prototype – a black one. wonder what happened with that? That was supposed to be a low level bomber in the same mould as the B2 versions of the Vic and Vulc

May 5, 2007 at 4:00 pm in reply to: Gannet and Wessex #1316646

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damn

May 5, 2007 at 3:57 pm in reply to: XM603 Update #1316648

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very true. we have lost 2 vulcans in the last 12 months – blackpool and woodford, out of 14(?). At least three of those are guaranteed preservation – IWM, Hendon, Cosford; with another static well looked after (that I know of – apologies to all owners whose vulcans are not crumbling to dust), 2 runners and a flyer. Overall we are doing well for vulcans. Victors and Valiants have faired less well.

Even so, I don’t like visiting places like Hanningsfields where aircraft are destroyed, and I like less to see airframes reduced to scrap where they stand – see the Flambards posts about the Wessex and Gannet!

Anyone got a spare hangar they could build just next to the A19 at Sunderrland -just big enough for a Vulcan and a Canberra?…….

May 5, 2007 at 3:51 pm in reply to: BBC BBMF Programme 4/5/07? #1316774

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couldn’t get it north of yorkshire either 😡 🙁

if there was someone at coventry tw****g the nacelle rear fairings under the guise of panel beating, it was me!

May 5, 2007 at 3:43 pm in reply to: A few VERY rough pictures from 1962 #1316787

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having just read this month’s flypast, some of the aircraft in these pics are listed – I think it said that the 504 now is in hendon – don’t quote me, but read it yourself – my memory is shot…..

May 5, 2007 at 3:34 pm in reply to: Own your own Tonka (tornado) #1316792

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cool….. 500 quid for the biggest airfix kit ever…. if it is the actual model used for flight trials, then its quite a find…. Last time I saw a tonka, it was aircraft which I worked on being reduced to spares at AMF at Leeming a couple of years back… 5000 hours old! Tradgedy!:mad:
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